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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-13
THEY GO BY FAVOR.
And There are So Many Kinds of
Kisses That a, List is Interesting.
From the Philadelphia Ne,rs.

From the Philadelphia Ne,cs
There was an old belief that unless a
maiden was kissed under the mistletoe at
Christmas she would not be married during
the ensuing year
When Fox was contesting the bardwon
seat at Westminster the beautiful Duchess
of Devonshire offered to kiss all who voted
for the great statesman.
In the ceremonial of betrothal a kiss has
played an important part in several nations
A nuptial kiss in church, at the conclusion
of the marriage services, is solemnly en-
joined by the York missal and the Sarum
Manual.
The beautiful Lady Gordon, when the
ranks of the Scottish regiments had been
sadly thinned by cruel Radaios and Sala-
manca, turned recruiting sergeant and TO
tempt the gallant lads placed the recruiting
shilling in her lips, from whence who would
might take it with his own.
In Finland, according to Bayard Taylor
the women resent as an insult a salute upon
the lips. A Finnish matron, hearing of our
English custom of kissing, declared that did
her husband attempt such a liberty she
would treat him with such box upon the
ears that he should not readily forget.
In Wesley's Journal, dated June rs, 1853,
is given the following in description of n
duel between two officers at Limerick: "Mr,
b. proposed firing at twelve yards, but Mr..
j. said: No; six is enough So they kissed
one another poor farceD and before they
were five PAGES asunder both frod at the
Instant
The code of Justinian says "that if a man
betrothed a woman by the kiss, and either
party died before marriage, the heirs were
entitled TO half the donations and the sur
viyor 10 the other half, but If the contract
was made without the solemn kiss the whole
of the espoual gifts must be restored 10 the
donors aud their heirs-at-law.n
The Mohammedans, ON their pious pill
grimage TO Mecca, kiss tho sacred black
stone and the four corners of the kaaba.
The Romish priest kisses the aspergillum.
and Palm Sunday the palm. Kissing Che
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Pope's toe was fashion introduced by one
of the Leos, who, it is said, had mutilated
his right hand and was too vain to expose
the stump.
In Iceland kissing had deterrent penalties
of great severity For kissing another
mans wife, with or without her consent, the
punishment of exclusion or its pecunlary
equivalent was awarded. A man rendered
himself liable for kissing an unmarried
woman under legal guardianship without
her consent, and even if the lady consented
the law required that every kiss should be
wiped out by fine of 3 marks, equivalent
to l4O ellis of wedmal, a quantity sufficient
to furnish a whole ships crew with pilot
jackets.
In Russia the Easter salutation is a kiss.
Each member of the family salutes the
other; chance acquaintance on meeting
kiss; principals kiss their employees; the
general kisses his officers; the officers kiss
their soldiers; the Gar kisses his family,
retinue, court and attendants, and even his
officers on parade, the sentinels at the palace
gates, and select party of private soldiers
probably deliberately prepared for this
royal salute.n In other parts the poorest
serf, meeting high-born dame in the street,
has but to say: Christ is risen," and he
will receive kiss and the reply: "He is
risen truly"
Hone, in his quaint old "Table-Book,"
gives an account of a curious kissing festi-
val held in Ireland: Easter Monday several
hundred young persons Of the town and
neighborhood of Potsferry, county Down,
resort, dressed in their best, to pleasant
walk near the town called The Walter
The avowed object of each person is to see
the fun, which consists in the men kissing
the females, without reserve, whether
married or single. This mode of salutation
is quite matter of course; it is never taken
amiss, nor with much show of coyness. The
female must be ordinary indeed who returns
home without having received at least
dozen hearty buses"
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STRANGE CRIMINAL TRIAL.
A Man Who Evaded Justice for Eleven
Years,


The New York Times has the following
dispatch from Detroit Mich One of the
most singular criminal trials, considering
the curious and remarkable circumstances
attending it, ever known in the history of
the courts of this State has just come to a
conclusion in the Circuit Court of Calhoun
county. Twelve years ago James w. Pugs-
ley, of Battle Greek, was well known
character of that village He had acquired
quite comfortable property as farmer
and moved into town, partly to take life
easier, but more to indulge in a natural
propensity for speculation. He speedily
developed into a note shaver, loaner of
money on mortgages and man ready to
take advantage of other peoples neces-
stiles to drive hard bargain, and in this
line developed great deal OF shrewdness
and added rapidly to his accumuations.
otherwise he was a grossly ignorant man,
knew nothing OF books, and made the most
iudicrous plumbers in the use of the English
language. About the period already mon.
TONED the death occurred of man named
AinaSa J.. Clark, a long -tine resident of
Battle Creek, noted BOTH for his great
wealth, his methods of acquiring ans. hang
ing ON TO his money, his aversion to the taS
gatherer, and his fondness for dealings his
TRENDS called shrewd aud his enemies
sharp practice. Clark held a mort.
gage of $1,000 upon a farm owned
ny one Calvin p. White. Pupslev
asserted that he had heard Clark say that he
Intended todischarge tho mortgage In return
i0f "orVlces rendered by White, and he CON
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THE TELEPHONE swINDLE.
Disappearance of the Mana ger-A Con
pressnan in the Tolls Also.

Disappearance OF the Manager-A Con-
gresham in the Tolls Also.
WASHINGTON, June 11,-Vice President
and General Manager Tyrcr, of the Ameri-
can Telephone Company, the discovery OF
whose prison record has stopped investment
in the stock of the company, admitted last
week that the company had not yet secured
the alleged concession from Venezuela which
was the basis of all its claims. Given if the
concession had been secured 1t would be
useless and valueless, as the Bell Telephone
Company has Withdrawn its telephones
from Venezuela as Improbable. The scheme
seems to have been swindle from beginning
to end 1t will hurt Congressman Ben But
terworth, the President of the company
He will return here from Cincinnati Tues
day when a meeting of the board of direct
ors will be held and Tyrcr will be deposed
in short order
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Brooksville Dots,

BRooRsvILLE, FLA, june 12.--General
satisfaction seems TO prevail over the divis-
ion of fernando county into three counties,
the other two being named respectively
Pasco and Citrus The present fernando
county is the choicest of the three, and
Brooksville is the county seat.
The question of having an artesian well In
Brooksville is now being earnestly dis
cusseu
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HUBER.-The relatives and friends of Mr..
and Mrs. John C. Huber are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral of their only son, CHARLES
F., from their residence on Lorch street, be
tween jefferson and Montgomery Streets at
4:30 O'Clock THIS AFTERNOON.
ROLEY.-The relatives, friends and acquaint-
ances of Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Roley are respect
fully invited to attend the funeral of their son
HAROLD, from their residence, Charlton and
Montgomery streets, THIS AFTERNOON,
at $3.50 o'clock
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The United States Hotel Company, OF Boston,
publish the most elegant set OF maps OF the
city proper and barbor, together with the most
complete history Of the city and suburbs beau.
tifuy illustratcdl, ever sent out an advertise
Order II.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
The Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance
Company.
call is hereby made upon stockholders, in
accordance with the charter. for an instament
of TWENTY FIVE (25) DOLLARS per share of
the capital stock of this Company, being the
balance due on said stock, payable at the Office
of the Company, No 90 Bay street, Savannah,
Georgia, to the Secretary, on or before the 18th
JUNE, 1887.
BY direction of the Board of Directors.
W. H. DANIEL Secretary.
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NOTICE TO RAILROAD CONTR ACTORS.

We, the undersigned, have contracted for
building the Savannah, Dublin and Western
Railroad All who wish to make contracts for
grading, trestling or furnishing ties, will apply
to
CARPENTER, GRANT, MUNDAY & CO.,
Pulaski House, Savannah, Ga.
Good prices naid for same
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Neither the Captains nor Consignees of the
Banks GIOVANNI, PETRUS and ITHURIEL
will be responsible for debts contracted by any
of their crews
CTP ACLIAN G. 10
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
The Manufacturers of Naval Stores who do not
approve the action of the NAVAL Stores Protec-
tive Association" at Jesup, on April 18th ult.,
are respectfully requested to meet at the Mar
shall House, in Savannah, on JUNE 23d, there
to take such action as they may deem best to
protect their own interests.
WILLIAM LETFORD,
JOHN MORRISON,
B. T. OUTLAND,
r. S. THIGPEN,
J. c. POWELL,
MCNEIL & PAXTON.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
From this date and until further notice the
STEAMER KATIE will be withdrawn from the
Savannah river, for the purpose of general over
hauling. Due notice will be given of the re-
sumption of her route.
JOHN LAYTON,
Manager.
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NOTICE.

The LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION,
hitherto represented in This city by Mr.. c. G.
FALLIGANT, is now in the hands of Col. R. J.
DAVANT, who will be glad to serve the patrons
of the Corporation and the public generally
Office 104 Bay street.
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Chenn Information.

G. N. SALISBURY, sigal Corps, us. Army
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THE MORRISON HOUSE.

One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the
South
A FFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board
"A with pure Artesian Water, at prices to sun
those wishing table. regular or transient accom-,
modations Northeast corner Broughton ana
nrayton streets, opposite Marshall House
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
DID SCOTT DESTROY CASH BOOKSf

MR. WEBSTER BELIEVES lie DID so TO COVER Up
HIS THEFTs-A DENIAL FROM 7. b. MUsGRAvE
Charles L. Webster & Co have to believe that
their defautng bookkeeper Frank NJ Scott whose con-
fession published yesterday made way with two OF
their books IN order TO up his dtiacation Some
time ago Mr Webster drew $4,000 and Scott charged him
with - 900 Mr. Webster disputed the CHI urge and when
he went to look FOR his private cashbooG TO prove ny
assertion he found that IL was missing IL supposed
that put the $4,000 In his pocket and then destroyed
Websters cashbook his theft One OF the
Mr Webster said yesterday that az the case was
In the hands OF the DistrictAttorney, lie did not
10 compound felony lie thought that /:
more guilty persons of this kind were prosecuted
poyes with more safety. Scott strenuousy denying
his guilt all the time viii, the case was In the Dstre,
ought 10 be allowed To escape sur he fe more zoe
money II would 10 this city without reQl-
son and would plead guilty and give 10 further trouble
sS power 70 H''' 'D-'''l''',''' "''' - "
worked for u.s.. continued Mr.. Webster, and deoer-
aely robbed OF fortune. He has done us an injury
which he can never repair when he first came us
said he wond be content with salary of 81 100 year,
but concluded To give him 200 just before NE year
was out he came 10 me and said he had wife AMI
children he felt though lie ought TO know whether 20
would employ him anotner year or not He also SAID u
would work for for 81 100 year II we woul!
keep him. This and other circumstances aroused
suspicious and then decided TO investigate as
accounts III We had found them all night We woud nave
raised his salary to $1,000 this year"
scott IN his confession, asserted that he had lost inc
money he had stolen In Wall Street speculation. and that
he had arranged with the head OF the firm OF Msgrave
divide with him the profits that might result from
the ventures. T. b. Musgravc senior partner OF Inc
firm said estcrday:
this office by OF high
specialized accordance with his own
notions market without aiyce from me- There WAS
arrangement either profits losses and the state
Mr. Scott In regard 10 this mstter absolutely as
lis letters the hrm 10 that there was no
ment OF TACT do remember OF seeing MI
than once and then he asked some unipo
s OF those petty accounts with winch
never bother myself.
John r. Kelly junior partner In the hrm confirmed MI
Musgrave's denial. He said that the whole amount Ok
Mr. SCOTS loss IN the Office 5000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
PERSONAL.

Ex-senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, viii resume
his law practice at Wollsboro.
Among Queen vctorias jubilee gifts will be mag
nic ent dinner-sevice Of bright yellow Dresden ware
from the German Emperor 1t will be profuseiy or
namented with medallion pictures Of notable events
and portraits Of famous persons ot her fciSn' ~
Will contain in all $50 pieces.
The Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. Scudier VIII be In tnis
city and vicinity for couple OF weeks next MONTH
and Will preach in his sons church In Jersey City
April 10. On June he will sail for Japan
The bronze monument to the memory OF Gordon,
designed by Mr. Boehm for the King Of the Begians'
who will place 1t in westmn stcr Abbey, has been
finished. 1t consists of statue of the nustrio1s
hero, wrapped In his military cloak, recumbent on q
sarcopha8us.
Ex-senator Buckalew, OF Pennsylvania, thinks it
would have been q small bit Of business for tn .
Republicans to redstrlct Philadelphia without refer"
ence TO Mr. Randalls constituency.
ono of tho latest Of "The Pail Mall Gazette's"
prize competitions calls for candidates for Paradise
Purgatory and Hell. The popular vote put GOrlOn at
the head Of the first list, with Mr.. Gladstone second
the late Lord Sbaftesbury third, Florence Nightingale
fourth the Queen fifth and the late Lord Idde.leigh
sixth. Carlinal Newman and Lord Beacons1ch
respectively twelfth and thirteenth. Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, Mr.. Chamberlain and Mr.. GLADSTONE
about even for the first place In PurgatOry, and
a long way ahead OF all Others The first on the
list OF the damned present member OF the House
OF Commons tho second present member Oh the
House Of Lords, and the third King George ~
The memorial statue Of General Albert Sidney
Johnston will be unveiled In New-Oreans on April O.
the twenty fifth anniversary Of his death at Shiloh.
DR.. Edmund J. James, Professor Of Finance in the
University Of Pennsylvania has declined the pres>
dency OF the Iowa State University, with double hi
present salary.
The venerable DR.. westland MarstOn, son Of the
late Philip Bourke Marston. Is In destitute crcuu'-
stances, and subscriptions have been started for hi
relief.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
uB GL1DSTOYES PATIENCE.

Mr.. Gladstones speech on Homo Rule and
Liberal reunion is at once candid and concil-
atory lie admits that while there is a grow
ing movement of public opinion in favor of the
Irish cause the discussions in his own party
continue without abatement. Apparently he
docs not deceive himself with Elusive hopes
Of Liberal reunion. He cOunscls patience good
humor and frmncss. and evidently considers
the conference negotiations premature and fu-
tile The increasing difficulties and embar-
easements Of the Tory Government encourage
him to look for speedy change OF policy. lie
bids the Prime Minister TO wakcn from sleep
and Danish a nightmare dread Of Home Rule.
He apparently forecasts the complete collapse
of Coercion and the introduction OF remedial
land measures. which viii open the way for his
own Home Rule scheme. lie is in no haste
therefore, to be drawn into entargllng confer
ences with the Liberal Unionists from which
no practical result is TO be expected until the
Conservative Governments policy shall have
been proved an unmistakable failure. He dis
courages pcaccmaling compromises made for
the sake of party. With his usual spirit Of
optimism he finds a positive advantage in the
dsagrcements which have arisen. since the
leaders of both factions can rightfully claim
the merit Of placing national above party qucs-
lions and he disdains TO promise any cOnces-
sion that will cndangcr the ultimate triumph
of Home Rule.
In his advanced age Mr. Gladstone cannot
fell to regret the waste Of time caused by dis
sessions in his party. If Lord harrington
Mr.. Chamberlain and their colleagues had sup
ported his legislative proposals, there would be
a united party in power 10 settle the Irish
question for all time. Whatever tends to re-
unite Liberal factions increases the chances
OF speedy and successful introduction OF a
Home Rule BILL The old statesman Is anxious
TO 90 down to his grave with the browning
work of his life completed. The temptations
offered by some of the Unionist leaders are not
easily resisted. lie has. however strength Of
character to avoid futile dalliance with rivals
who are hoping to entangle him In their own
wiles. He knows that fatal compromises OF
his own principles only arc possible now and
foresees that with the failure of Tory policy
his Unionst foes will be at his mercy and be
forced TO sue for peace on his terms. Con-
scious of the inherent strength OF his position
he is content 10 stand and wait He scouts the
idea of receding from the principles Of the
Home Rule bill. 81 will stand fast" he says,
"to Ireland's cause during what remains TO me
of political life" All friends of liberal insti-
tutions will unite in the hope that the remnant
Of that honorcd life may he prolonged until
the permanent reconciliation Of tho English
and Irish peoples can be effected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
TIRE BTFFdLO FIRE.

Tho burning OF tie Richmond Hotel at
Buffalo yesterday. with the consequent loss OF
life infection of suffering and destruction OF
property, must be attributed mainly to that
contempt alike Of common experience and nat
ural law which has so much to do with the
persistence Of abuses Of all kinds. No fact is
better established than the fact that elevators
Of Tho ordinary kind, which are not wholly built
OF hre-proof materials are specially adapted to
distribute fire from bottom to top Of The build
ing in which they are placed. That they add
enormously to the danger Of residence in such
buildings has been proved by scores, perhaps
hundreds. of fearful disasters There Is not
tho faintcst doubt about the matterj not
outstanding this architects and builders con-
tinue to put them in regularly, nor as a rule are
any effective precautions taken to render them
less deadly. In hotels it Is scarcely necessary
to say that they are especially dangerous.
Transient guests ascending by the elevator to
their rooms frequently do not know where tho
stairways are , and quite commonly it would
help them little if they did, since the prox-
unity of the stairs to tho elevator makes 1t
quickly seize the other.
The Richmond Hotel fire followed the usual
course Starting in the ground floor it ran up
the elevator and In few seconds reached tho
roof. at the same time setting each intervening
floor In flames. The guests, reused from sleep,
were bewildcred and finding the halls full of
smoke and fame were driven to tho windows.
There another deadly obstacle, which, however,
Is as familiar in all our large cities as tho
elevator came into play. The firemcn rushed
TO plant their ladders but the telegraph wires
stretched by the dozen along the sides Of the
street DISTRACTED and delayed them. The loss
of precious time caused at almost every disas-
trous fire in New-York by the telegraph wires
could doubtless be represented annually by
round sum, standing for property destroyed
through this obstruction, and it Is the same in
other cities. At Buffalo probably some lives
were sacrificed by the delay, for every half
minute Is priceless at such time. Another
circumstance must be noted. When the hotel
clerk discovered the fire he got a hose. pre-
pared expressly for just such an occasion, TO
bear on it, But the water would not run was
probably frozen and so that precaution proved
futile. and the attempt TO use tho hose only
caused delay in giving the alarm.
The non fre-proof elevator, however, was
the chief criminal in this wholesale murder, and
so long as the public tolerate such rcck-
less structures disasters of tho Same kind
must be expected. 1t is useless and even fool
ish to deplorc catastrophes which would be i'm
possible if any real sense Of duty 10 the public
animated those who minister 10 their wants, or
il common sense governed legislation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
A EEAVY INDICTMENT.

Engineering News" dispatched a practical
engineer TO the scene Of the Forest Hill disaster
on hearing of it. He at once reached the con-
cluson stated as follows by The News " :
That /" the parts which first broke were tho two
hangers which carried the last or most eastcrly
pair Of floor beams of the northerly or last built
truss the truss which carried all the load. So
Jar as can be Judged from outside appearances,
they are made Of far from good iron to begin
with but in addition to that they are Of very
bad design and most impcrfecuy welded. In
addition to that again they are both of them
very badly Hawcd by old and deeply-rusted
breaks at tie most strained section, there being
two distinct breaks of this kind to each spec
linen. The first hanger has both breaks across
the weld, the first break being complete and
the second break an inch and an eighth above
IT, all but complete, the metal merely hanging
together by Inc outside skim" "The News "
publishes elevations and sections OF the Bussey
Bridge in the same number, and says The
general judgment of engineers will bear us out
in saying that moro shamcfully bad specimens
Of bridge design, metal and workmanship can
hardly exist 1t is appalling to think
Of tho tens OF thousands of lives which have
literally hung by thread in passing over this
bridge during the last eleven years"
We think the Massachusetts, Railroad Com
mssoners ought TO send for Mr.. Henry 5.
Pritchard, who was detailed by "Ihe Engineer
ing News " to examine the wreck Of the bridge.
He appears to know his business. He speaks
bis mind frankly. He makes charges which
are severe and important, and which squarcly
traverse tho statements Of several Of the
servants of the railroad company examined al
ready. An indictment of this kind cannot he
ignored and those who arc to find a verdict
on the case cannot afford to pass it by.